Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The first USS Wilkes (TB-35) was a Blakely-class torpedo boat in the United States Navy. Wilkes was laid down on 3 June 1899 at Morris Heights, New York, by the Gas Engine and Power Company and the Charles L. Seabury launched on 28 September 1901; sponsored by Miss Harriet E. Rankin; and commissioned at the Norfolk Navy Yard on 18 September 1902, Lt. (jg.) Dudley Wright Knox in command.

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